News & events

Open Science encompasses a range of behaviors that aim to improve the transparency of scientific research. This article (co-authored by Katarzyna Jasko from CSCS) provides a toolbox of recommendations and resources for those aspiring to promote open scientific practices. The … Continued

A new book on the psychology of extremism edited by Arie W. Kruglanski, Catalina Kopetz, and Ewa Szumowska published by Rourledge! In popular discourse, the term ‘extremism’ has come to mean largely ‘violent extremism’, but this is just one of … Continued

Resistance to granting refugee status to individuals often originates in the belief that the influx of refugees endangers national security because of the presumably extremist ideological beliefs refugees hold. The popularity of such narratives says more about the psychology of … Continued

A new paper in Motivation and Emotion authored by Paulina Szwed, Małgorzata Kossowska, and Marcin Bukowski from our Centre is already published! Authors tested the effort pattern under uncontrollability situations for individuals with different level of uncertainty tolerance. They found … Continued

How to make science more open and transparent? We will find out about it by listening to the podcast “Open Science”, created by a member of our Centre, Katarzyna Jaśko together with Bartosz Janik from the University of Silesia. The … Continued

We are very happy to announce that Marcin Bukowski from our Centre was awarded with a scholarship in the prestigious Bekker Programme and will start a research stay at The University of Toronto, Canada. The title of his project is … Continued

Best wishes to our Friends and Collaborators!

Gabriela Czarnek from our Centre together with Michael Richter and Paweł Strojny published a paper in Psychophysiology! The goals of this research were to analyze cardiac sympathetic recovery patterns and evaluate whether sympathetic cardiac responses to a task challenge can … Continued

We are very happy to announce that our colleague, Katarzyna Jaśko, received a prestigious scientific award in the competition organized by “Polityka” magazine! The scholarship was awarded to 5 Polish academics with outstanding scientific achievements. Katarzyna Jaśko is interested in … Continued

We highly recommend a new paper authored by Wiktor Soral and Mirosław Kofta from Warsaw Universitry as well as Marcin Bukowski from our Centre about the control deprivation effects on implicit sense of agency published recently in “Journal of Experimental … Continued

A new book “Sense of control and uncertainty: consequences for understanding of social world” edited by Mirosław Kofta and Anna Rędzio is finally out! In the publication you can find latest research on how sense of control and uncertainty influence … Continued

We invite you to listen to the lecture about positive changes in science in the last few years and about Open Science movement by Katarzyna Jaśko from our Centre. The lecture is in Polish and you can watch it here.

Gabriela Czarnek from our Centre together with Paweł Strojny, Agnieszka Strojny, and Michael Richter have just published a paper in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction! The goal of their study was to investigate the patterns of engagement among professional firefighters … Continued

Katarzyna Jasko from our Centre together with Karolina Dukala and Marta Szastok have just published a new article in the ‘Journal of Applied Social Psychology’! In three studies they showed that when female students focused on similarities between men and … Continued

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Is it possible to decrease stereotyping tendency among older adults? New paper by Gabriela Czarnek, Małgorzata Kossowska, and Michael Richter aims at investigating this problem. Authors of the paper showed that stereotyping tendency of older people might be mitigated under … Continued

We are happy to inform you that an overview of the event ‘Rethinking Refugees – Knowledge and Action’ co-organised by our colleague Sindhuja Sankaran was lately published on https://www.easp.eu website. To learn more about this wonderful initiative please go to https://www.easp.eu/news/itm/-787.html. Highly … Continued

Who is a refugee/migrant/an asylum seeker? What journey did they endure? Why do we fear them? What are the current challenges of this situation? How can we help victims of war and persecution? How can we enable integration and come … Continued

This month Rex Wright, Professor of Psychology at the University of North Texas, is visiting our Centre. During his stay prof. Wright is conducting several workshops: on The Nature of Love (11-12.10), Motives to Help and Harm (15-16.10) and Fatigue and … Continued

We are happy to inform you that Gabriela Czarnek and Piotr Dragon from our Lab won 2018 Solomon Asch Award for the best paper by young researchers published in Social Psychological Bulletin (Psychologia Społeczna). More to be found at: https://spb.psychopen.eu/about#SolomonAschAward Congratulations!

If you’re interested in religious fundamentalism and its cognitive underpinnings we encourage you to read a post about studies on this topic conducted by members of our lab – Małgorzata Kossowska, Paulina Szwed, Gabriela Czarnek and colleagues. Enjoy!

How religious fundamentalism works on the level of basic, neural reactions? – researchers from our Centre together with collaborators shed some light on this complex problem. In the EEG study they found that among people intolerant to uncertainty (those with … Continued

Two special guests visited our Centre this month. First, we had a chance to take part in a workshop on pre-registration and registered reports conducted by Kai Jonas (University of Maastricht), founding editor of Comprehensive Results in Social Psychology – … Continued

Happy Easter to all our collaborators, friends, & family 🙂

To all our friends, collaborators, and people interested in social psychology: Merry Christmas and all the best for upcoming year 2017!